So far, the company — which lets users post videos of up to two minutes and 20 seconds, and doesn’t actively scan for infringing content — has been unwilling to negotiate to license music. And although Twitter operates under the DMCA, the company often takes “three to five days” to remove content after receiving a takedown notice, according to a rights-holder source.
Source: Twitter Faces the Music as Tension With Labels Heats Up
The German implementation of the European copyright reform is edging towards adoption, despite having been postponed from cabinet talks on Wednesday (27 January). Upload filters appear to be inevitable, as platforms will be forced in the future to check content for copyrighted material as soon as it is uploaded. With the vast amounts of data uploaded to YouTube or Facebook every day, this is only possible with automated software.
Source: LEAK: German government edges towards agreement on copyright law
The UK launch of the Facebook News service is the first outside the US. In addition to already-inked deals involving the Guardian, the Economist and hundreds of local sites, Facebook on Tuesday announced new partnerships with Channel 4 News, Daily Mail Group, DC Thomson, Financial Times, Sky News and Telegraph Media Group.
Source: Facebook News launches in UK following deals with publishers
San Francisco-based technology firm Feed Media Group (FMG) has partnered with Warner Music Group (WMG) to launch Adaptr, a new platform that allows developers to legally integrate music into their apps. Adaptr provides full licensing for on-demand music, allowing businesses to skip direct licensing negotiations and go straight to market with music from popular artists and songwriters.
Amongst the proposals, there are documents from trade orgs representing major labels, indie labels, music publishers, songwriters, artist managers, streaming services, and others. There are also direct submissions from artists, including British pop-ska legends Madness, as well as the #brokenrecord campaign that’s caught momentum on social media these past few months.
Source: BMG, Beggars Group and Hipgnosis each have strong opinions on streaming. Here are those opinions.
A federal judge has denied an attempt by conservative social network Parler to force Amazon to host it on AWS. As expected by most who read Parler’s ramshackle legal arguments, the court found nothing in the lawsuit that could justify intervention, only “faint and factually inaccurate speculation.”
Source: Judge denies Parler’s bid to make Amazon restore service
After months of talks, Google France and the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Generale said Thursday that they agreed to set up a framework under which the U.S. company will negotiate individual licensing deals with publishers.
Source: Google, French publishers sign copyright news payment deal
The U.K.’s three biggest record label heads put on a united front at a Parliamentary probe into the streaming business on Tuesday (Jan. 19), denying artist claims that music streaming payouts are unfairly weighted in labels’ favor. The label executives stressed the importance of protecting artists’ interests and maximizing revenue for all parties.
Source: Major Labels Scrutinized in UK Streaming Probe: ‘You’re Living in Cloud Cuckoo Land’
From the very first session of this inquiry, the committee members have been steered towards the idea that The One Thing They Can Do To Improve Things is to extend the ‘equitable remuneration’ model used for broadcast music royalties in the UK – splitting them 50/50 between artists and labels – to the more passive forms of music streaming consumption: like playlists and ‘radio’.
Source: Major labels gave evidence to the UK’s music streaming economics inquiry… so what did we learn?
The US government is asking Australia to abandon a proposed law that would force Facebook and Google to pay local media firms a cut of the advertising revenue they rake in when using their content. American trade representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers asked Australia to “suspend” the plans and suggested the country instead “further study the markers, and if appropriate, develop a voluntary code.”
Source: US asks Australia to ditch plan to make Facebook, Google share ad